"The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation."

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Christmas 1793 speech, as quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, in London Review of Books Vol. 33 No. 22 (17 November 2011)